Vista Residences

Vista Residences is a property development site I built during my time at Pollitt and Partners. I was called in by their Senior Developer and Designer, Dan and Paul, to work on the site as the primary Developer .

The CMS was customised from a barebones WordPress install with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin installed. Each section within the site was based off a reusable, modular architecture so it made sense to use the ACF plugin to have detailed control over the CMS options the client had access to, depending on the content.

The Front-end comprised of Grunt, Bower and NPM to handle tooling and building, while the Javascript components were built using custom modules, together with jQuery, Slick and Velocity.

The site would have been a perfect case to use Flexbox for aligning content, but IE9 support required us to only use it for progressive enhancement. It still gave the site a bit more of a structural boost when it was needed.

Another notable point was the mobile-dropdown/desktop navigation menu, which was manipulated via Javascript to toggle the menu and sections both open and closed on touch devices, whereas standard CSS hovers were used by default for bigger/non-touch devices. A single block of HTML was used to serve both needs.

I thoroughly enjoyed working with the team at Pollitt & Partners. Their friendliness and professionalism was first-class, which made me feel at home from day one. I would jump at the opportunity to work for them again.